[BRLTTY] Getting to know BRLTTY

[Cearbhal O'Meadhra]

Dave,

Thanks for the explanation of the installation of BrlAPI and BRLTTY. 

I found that I had to restart the computer for everything to link up and now
the Braille Lite 2000 is working as a braille display with NVDA.

My next question is, how can I get the PC to accept input from the braille
Lite using BRLTTY?


All the best,

Cearbhall

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From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] On Behalf
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Sent: 11 February 2015 12:43
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Getting to know BRLTTY

[quoted lines by Cearbhal O'Meadhra on 2015/02/11 at 10:11 -0000]

>I have a Braille Lite 2000 which I am able to interface with NVDA to 
>display the text strings which NVDA speaks out through the eSpeak 
>synthesiser. To do this I have installed BRLTTY and run "install.bat".
>I can see that this has started the BrlAPI service. I notice that NVDA 
>only sends strings to the braille Lite when this service is running. I 
>have run BRLTTY config and set this to Braille lite on com 7. I see 
>that there is also a module called BRLTTY.exe. Should I run this? What does
it do?

No, you shouldn't be runing it directly as you've attached it to the BrlAPI
service. Starting the BrlAPI service starts brltty for you.

>I cannot make this connection easily every time so I suspect that I am 
>doing something wrong! Can you advise me where to begin,

I myself am not a Windows user, so I'm speaking more from theory than from
experience. It should work as long as you start the BrlAPI service before
you start NVDA. If you start NVDA first, or if you stop the BrlAPI service
while NVDA is running, you may have trouble as I'm not sure how well NVDA
reconnects if it encounters a problem.

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